Quick: in five seconds, pick the most iconic Volkswagen model ever. Done? Good. Yes, the correct answer is The Beetle. If you said anything else, you’re either fooling yourself by saying GTI or trying to sound clever by throwing out Veyron. Just get out, seriously. Want my point to be cemented? 60 years ago, they just called this car “Volkswagen.” […]
Test Drives
In Echelon We Carry On: 2011 Saab 9-5 Turbo4 Review
Floyd Bennett Field holds credit as New York City’s first municipal airport. Since it’s opening in 1931, many notable figures have begun or ended a journey here to, inadvertently or not, leave their mark in history. Today, among the people fishing and R.C. car racers sending their toys up the runways, old hangars sit unused and abandoned, echoing a time […]
First Drive: 2012 Toyota Camry XLE
Much like a parent of an honor roll elementary school student, Toyota cannot be more excited about the 2012 Camry. Toyota is very keen on focusing on the success of the Camry as a whole,and It’s hard to blame them. Very few companies can really tout the “Best Selling Car in America” card, and Toyota aims to capitalize and build […]
Pumped Up Kicks: 2011 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 3.8 R-Spec Review
It’s time to talk about choices. Remember in Trainspotting when Ewan Macgregor is going on about choice? Choose this, choose that and the other? While his diatribe bookends the character’s tumultuous heroin decent, what the rest of us who aren’t on smack can take away from this is that a potential and life-changing side effect in engaging in choice is […]
First Drive: 2012 Hyundai Accent
Sustainability is what Hyundai has put forth as their main focus, a point made clear as they announce that they will have no less than four 40 mpg models in 2012. This is 40 mpg with no premiums, by the way. Hyundai are keen to point out that with other manufacturers that promise the same fuel economy, there’s always that […]